TY - BOOK AU - Woźniakowski,Tomasz P. TI - Fiscal unions: economic integration in Europe and the United States T2 - Oxford scholarship online SN - 9780191949234 AV - HG3894 U1 - 332.4 23 PY - 2022/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - Economic and Monetary Union KW - Monetary unions KW - Fiscal policy KW - United States KW - History KW - Intergovernmental fiscal relations KW - Finance and Accounting KW - ukslc KW - Economics KW - thema N1 - Also issued in print: 2022; Includes bibliographical references and index; Specialized N2 - By building on a recent research comparing the EU and US and drawing on Riker's influential theory of federalism, this book explores the origins of fiscal unions. It investigates early American history and traces its constitutional debates to argue that an internal threat - such as sovereign debt crisis leading to social unrest threatening the Union - triggers emergence of federal taxing powers - i.e. a federal fiscal union. It then contrasts the American experience of fiscal integration with the European one and subsequently concludes with the insights for the EU UR - https://go.openathens.net/redirector/lords.parliament.uk?url=https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192858436.001.0001 ER -